A set of AI-generated #CocaCola adverts point the way to a grim future of soulless, synthesised film remakes. Our review: buff.ly/3ZggQ2o

🚨 TCGS GOTY 2024 WILDCARD POLL 🚨 Vote now to decide whose Wildcard choice makes it into next week's Game of the Year 2024 show. Sean: UFO 50 David: Thank Goodness You’re Here Mat: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth James: Nintendo Alarmo Poll ends this Saturday at 12:00pm GMT. #GOTY

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Loved doing this - made the perfect Advent Calendar, using the Home Alone LEGO house. shortlist.com/news/i-turned-…

How Zuckerberg has bent the knee to Trump/Musk: • $1M for inauguration • Dined at Mar-a-Lago & gave Trump Meta AR glasses • Promoted GOP operative Joel Kaplan • Put Dana White on Meta's board • Got rid of fact-checkers on FB, Insta, and Threads wired.com/story/meta-dit…

#HardTruths, Saturday Night and You're Cordially Invited are all now out in the UK. Some thoughts on each of them here: buff.ly/4jH02tU

SCOOP: Meet Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a teen DOGE engineer accessing sensitive federal data • Runs Tesla.Sexy, which operates a Russian website • Worked at startup that hired convicted hackers • Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyberattack 1/2

Today, in dystopia: The world's largest call center operator is using AI to make its staff sound less Indian bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by Benoît Berthelot

A Latvian animator, working with open source software and a small team, just managed to win an Oscar for his second feature, #Flow. buff.ly/O4SUzgL

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A fun demonstration of the utility of gen AI overviews. You can enter any old nonsense phrase and ask Google its meaning and it will deliver a nonsense AI overview

How do consumer electronics manufacturers deal with a US-China trade war? Apple’s solution could be to move its manufacturing out of China—as much as it feasibly can, anyway. wired.com/story/apple-ma…

That’s it, fuck the streak The first wave of AI replacements was already embarrassing but this is downright pathetic

I hope every studio exec, producer, filmmaker and actor thinking about using AI to make movies watches this week’s episode of THE STUDIO. This is your future if you use AI. Fuck AI.

I just realized something most people are going to lose when (as they inevitably will) they start using AIs to write everything for them. They'll lose the knowledge of how writing is constructed.

This is bleak reading.

Another excellent, eye-opening, and sobering piece by Film Stories: magazines, podcast, live shows, web> Google, and the mystery of its top-ranked Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review filmstories.co.uk/news/google-an…

Love that JDB is the most unpretentious pop star. Usually this feature starts with “for breakfast I’ll have baby kale with poached blueberries topped with sautéed chia seeds” then some nonsense for ‘lunch’. But not here ❤️

In pictures: Nintendo Switch 2 midnight store launches across the globe ift.tt/VicKmtT

“If we add Gaussian blur they won’t know it’s AI”